Romanian President: Sino-Romanian Relations Full of Vitality

Romanian president Ion Iliescu said that China-Romania future relationship will be full of vitality when interviewed by People's Daily lately.

Iliescu highly praised the long-term friendly cooperation between China and Romania. He said that both countries are undertaking great reforms, but it does not affect the existing good relations between the two countries. Both sides have kept higher level exchanges in political, military and cultural fields.

China, as the permanent member of the United Nations, has played a very important role in world peace and stability, said Iliescu.

Illiescu pointed out that Sino-Romania's future relations will be full of vitality because both sides share a common wish to develop political relations and economic ties as well.

He believes that the good political relations between China and Romania will enhance a broader economic and cultural exchange.

Romania hopes that its commodities can meet Chinese consumers' needs and prices are suitable for Chinese people. Romania wishes to promote common prosperity by fair business dealings and trade exchanges.

Iliescu said that Romanian people value high the Chinese civilization and the Chinese people have made great efforts in realizing modernization and state development.

He said that Romania needed to learn many things from China such as the strategy of priority development and the method for resource re-allocation.

Iliescu said that after he was reelected as president in 2000, Romania's chief task is to revitalize its economy by pulling back its economy to the track for a stable and sustainable growth, improving people's purchasing power and reducing poverty and unemployment rate.

When talking about the entry into NATO and EU, he said that Romania has a big chance to join NATO at NATO's Prague in November.

He said that Romania's joining NATO will bring it more secure guarantee. Joining EU will help Romania enter an attractive and solvent market with labor, capital and products moving freely and the living standard of the Romanians improved.

( June 3, 2002)